Mariana Saffon is a Colombian writer
and director based between Mexico City
and Bogotá. She has directed short films
and commercials in Colombia, Morocco,
Mexico and the US. She went through her
undergraduate studies in Bogotá and then
completed her MFA in Film Directing and
Screenwriting at Columbia University in
New York City in 2019 where she was the
recipient of the Milos Forman Directing
Fellowship and the Adrienne Shelly Award
for Best Female Director. Her latest short
film Between You and Milagros (Entre
tú y Milagros), won the Orizzonti award
for Best Short Film at the 77th Venice
International Film Festival in 2020, the Best
Short Film Award at the Hamptons Film
Festival and the DGA Jury Award for Best
Latino Director for the East Coast. The
short film garnered more than 80 selections
selections around the world, won 17 awards
and is now featured in The New Yorker
Magazine Screening Room and in Criterion
Channel. She is currently writing her first
feature, Mar de Leva, which she plans to
shoot soon in Colombia.